Backend Developer with Golang

Join Octal Philippines Inc. as a Backend Developer, where you will be integral to the development and maintenance of server-side applications and databases. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement robust backend systems, ensuring optimal performance and scalability. Your expertise in backend technologies and frameworks will help enhance application functionality and improve user experience.

Required for All Jobs

·        Performs other duties as needed or requested.

·        Understanding and awareness of GDPR, data privacy, and data protection policies.

·        Complies with all policies, regulations, and standards.

·        Demonstrates company values at all times.

Qualifications

·        Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.

·        Secondary School / High School Diploma Graduate of a technical-related course or discipline.

Work Experience - All

·        5-7 years of experience in developing REST or gRPC microservice APIs using protobufs.

·        5-7 years of B2B SaaS enterprise applications with a large user base.

·        5-7 years of Automation testing generating Unit, behaviour-driven development (BDD), and test-driven development (TDD).

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities - All

·        Appropriate knowledge, skills and abilities required for the job.

·        High degree of proficiency in Design Principles and Microservices.

Production AWS hands-on experience.

·        Production experience with software engineering architecture, component design, coding, unit testing, behaviour-driven development (BDD), test-driven development (TDD), documenting, and deploying.

·        Production experience working with CI/CD environments is required.

·        Experience working with pub/sub/messaging systems (SQS, SNS, Kafka, ActiveMQ…)

·        Experience in DevOps activities (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker…)

·        Experience in automated software testing through unit/functional/ integration test suites.

·        Experience with monitoring & logging technologies (Datadog, Splunk, Wazuh, New Relic, Prometheus, Opentelemetry, Jaeger,…)

·        Collaborative attitude, team player, friendly, passionate, and flexible to learn new tools and skillsets.

·        Production experience building and shipping customer-facing applications with thousands of users.

·        Strong sense of ownership and focus on long-term usability and extensibility.

·        Strong experience solving complex problems.

·        Experience working with Agile methodologies.

·        Professional level communication skills with/ the ability to convey ideas to a broad audience of different specialisations.

·        Ability to work toward goals, meet deadlines, and contribute positively to the team environment.

Backend Specific Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

·        Experience with relational (MySQL and PostgreSQL) and non-relationship (NoSQL) data stores (e.g., Data Lakes)

·        Golang service development

·        Protobuf

·        APIs & Partner Integrations

·        Extensive REST and GraphQL experience

Licences & Certifications

·        AWS Certified Developer (preferred)

Backend Specific Work Experience

• 5-7 years in the following microservice tech stacks:
• Java 17+ with Gradle or Maven build tools
• GoLang, Scala, and Spark
• 5-7 years of experience building AWS infrastructure using Terraform
• 5-7 years of micro-service backend architecture

• Competitive salary and benefits package.